Managing the Impact on Traffic
Great Eastern Highway (GEH) is a major arterial route for the east metropolitan region, servicing some 55,000 vehicles per day. With this amount of traffic, CEA understands that its works have the potential to affect both the highway and the wider network and has given the priority to road users in the development of construction staging (see CONSTRUCTION STAGING AND PHASING).
CEA has also developed a number of initiatives to minimise the impacts on traffic to the greatest extent possible. One of these initiatives was forming a Network Operations Working Group, comprising key industry stakeholders. The Alliance also has a dedicated project team whose primary task is to implement and maintain traffic management to a high and consistent standard.
The Alliance is also working collaboratively with Main Roads and industry to obtain approval to trial a number of new traffic management products and methods.
Examples of products currently being explored and/or implemented include:
- Attenuator units to provide greater protection for workers from the risk of oncoming traffic or errant vehicles. This has not been implemented in WA previously and will set a new industry benchmark.
- Two types of water-filled safety barriers that will out-perform the current Main Roads’ standard.
- Temporary speed humps in the traffic management of road works to increase the compliance of reduced speed zones and provide greater protection for workers.